流浪地球 7-8/10
50M budget, 645M outcome. China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular.
吳京 is the dude who made tons of risk an invested in himself in Wolf Worrier etc.
In this movie, he does NOT throw one punch whatsoever which was surprising to see.
1) director had a limited budget, talked to his mentor and while mentor was also filming a space sci-fi movie, decided to lend his protege the gear which helped significantly.
2) zero USA influence in the movie at all, did not show anything US. (funny thing, they had a scene where they had japanese solider commit suicide hahaha)
3) 2 hrs of medium paced action with no bathroom breaks.
4) not a huge climax but decent paced to keep you going = great editing
5) This is 1998 armagaddon but China style, 1st movie for china to do full-scale interstellar / space sci-fi movie.
6) script was ok, typical hollywood ending
7) zero romance whatsoever
8) you gotta be pretty good at mandarin to follow even with subtitles cause some of the dialog goes fast.